Oracle9iAS oc4j.jar and http-web-site.xml on Solaris8

[Alfie Norks]

I'm trying to install Oracle9iAS on Solaris 8 to try out an app.EAR
I've had supplied from someone.

I've messed about installing Oracle9iAS Enterprise through the
(runInstaller) "Oracle Universal Installer" and spent a certain amount
of time looking for an oc4j directory that was supposed to exist. Then
I spotted that I have to install "Oracle Container for J2EE" from the
Core Edition instead of the Enterprise Edition. (Why doesn't
Enterprise come with this?!!). Fine - I did that too.

Then I find that the area that the Core Edition builds is named
"J2EE_containers" and not oc4j.... but I'm going to assume that these
are the same things. Right?



Right.. now... my installation instructions state that I need to"java
-jar oc4j.jar -install" from ocj4/j2ee/home... firstly does anyone
know what this does?... secondly - my Solaris install does not have an
oc4j.jar file... and looking around I've seen similar instructions
stating that they use "java -jar orion.jar -install"... is orion.jar
the same thing (perhaps a Solaris version)?

... Then my install instructions say I should look at http-web-site.xml
in the oc4j/j2ee/home/config directory. I don't have an
http-web-site.xml file. Where is this file supposed to be - and/or
where does it come from? Does Solaris use this file?

Then my instructions tell me to deploy the EAR using "java -jar
oc4j.jar" (a.k.a. "java -jar orion.jar"?).. which when run throws out
an error stating "Error unpacking: IO Error: error in opening zip
file" "Fatal Error: Transaction log file
(...oc4j/home/persistence/transaction.stat) did not exist and was not
possible to create....". Is this an error because of my installation,
my orion.jar/oc4j.jar issue, or something else.


Lots of problems. Any ideas?

Thanks
Alfie

[Alfie Norks]

Ok - I've now given up with Oracle9iAS and I'm looking at OracleAS 10g
(still on Solaris 8).

I've run through the installation instructions that "came with it" and
I've installed the Infrastructure Tier in my
/oracle/AppServer/9.0.4.0.0/Infra directory using the oracle unix
login.. and that directory now looks like ....

drwxr-xr-x 67 oracle oinstall 1536 Oct 5 19:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 1536 Oct 5 18:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 Apache
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 BC4J
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 71 Oct 5 19:06 JRE ->
/oracle/AppServer/9.0.4.0.0/Infra/jre/1.1.8
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:08 OPatch
drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:15 admin
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 assistants
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 5120 Oct 5 19:34 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 2560 Oct 5 19:34 cfgtoollogs
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 chgip
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 classes
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Oct 5 19:31 config
drwxr-xr-x 10 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:08 ctx
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:24 dbs
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:12 dcm
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 demo
drwxr-xr-x 8 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 diagnostics
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 doc
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:12 hs
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:13 install
drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:15 inventory
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:33 j2ee
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:08 jar
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 javacache
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 javavm
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 jdbc
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 jdk
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 jis
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 2048 Oct 5 19:09 jlib
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 jre
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 jsp
drwxr-xr-x 18 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 ldap
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Oct 5 19:11 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:10 md
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 mesg
drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:12 network
drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:10 oca
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 ocommon
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 opmn
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 oracore
drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:15 oradata
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 ord
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 otrace
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 oui
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 owm
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 perl
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:07 plsql
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 portal
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 precomp
drwxr-xr-x 13 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:12 rdbms
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:10 relnotes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 9194 Oct 5 19:12 root.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 10 Oct 5 18:56 root.sh.old
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 slax
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:08 soap
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 sqlj
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 sqlplus
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 srvm
drwxr-xr-x 10 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:31 sso
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 syndication
drwxr-xr-x 14 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:15 sysman
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 uddi
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:33 uix
drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:09 ultrasearch
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 wcs
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:04 webservices
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:06 wireless
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 wwg
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:05 xdk


and I've installed the ApplicationServer Tier on the same machine in
my /oracle/AppServer/9.0.4.0.0/AppServ directory... and that looks
like...

drwxr-xr-x 57 oracle oinstall 1024 Oct 5 21:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 1536 Oct 5 18:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:52 Apache
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 BC4J
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 73 Oct 5 19:50 JRE ->
/oracle/AppServer/9.0.4.0.0/AppServ/jre/1.1
..8
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 OPatch
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 assistants
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 2560 Oct 5 19:58 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Oct 5 19:58 cfgtoollogs
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 chgip
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1024 Oct 5 19:56 config
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:54 dcm
drwxr-xr-x 8 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 diagnostics
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 iaspt
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:54 install
drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:55 inventory
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:58 j2ee
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 javacache
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 javavm
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:40 jdbc
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:40 jdk
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 jis
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 1536 Oct 5 19:52 jlib
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:40 jre
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 jsp
drwxr-xr-x 8 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:53 ldap
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 3072 Oct 5 19:53 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:52 mesg
drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:54 network
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 ocommon
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 opmn
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 oracore
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 ord
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:54 otrace
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:49 oui
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 owm
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 perl
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 plsql
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 portal
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 precomp
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 rdbms
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 relnotes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 10 Oct 5 21:36 root.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 6655 Oct 5 19:54 root.sh.old
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 slax
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:51 soap
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 sqlj
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 sqlplus
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 srvm
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 sso
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:40 syndication
drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:55 sysman
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:40 uddi
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:57 uix
drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 upgrade
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 wcs
drwxr-xr-x 16 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:58 webcache
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 webservices
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 wireless
drwxr-xr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Oct 5 19:50 xdk


I've even - regardless of how hard the installation instructions tried
to stop me - been able to get the "Welcome to Oracle Application
Server" home page up using the http://mymachine.mydomain.local:7777
url. Amazing! I was also able to locate the mysterious "Getting
Started After Installing Oracle Application Server" section of the
documentation after many failed Google and Metalink searches (found in
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10464_01/core.904/b10376/toc.htm)

But now when I try to use OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) I'm still
running into problems. Firstly - 10g seems to call the directory /j2ee
on Solaris - although the documentation I've been seeing around the
web calls it /oc4j... but regardless of that - the documentation seems
to loose me here.... if I follow the b10376/toc.htm item (above) down
further it starts going into Windows configuration discussions.

All I want to do at this point is install an EAR into the AppServer -
but if I run "java -jar oc4j.jar -install"

I get the following error...

Error reading config: Error instantiating default application at file:
/oracle/AppServer/9.0.4.0.0/AppServ/j2ee/home/config/application.xml:
Constructing UserManager for default:caught
oracle.security.jazn.JAZNRuntimeException


Can anyone point me in the direction of some unix specific
documentation on what to do next?

Many thanks
Alfie

[Sander]

alfienorks@hotmail.com (Alfie Norks) wrote in
news:71e2739.0410051419.72993955@posting.google.com:
Ok - I've now given up with Oracle9iAS and I'm looking at OracleAS 10g (still on Solaris 8).

[...]

You are confusing the standalone edition of OC4J with an entire OracleAS
installation.

Your starting point for OC4J only should be:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/index.html

Download the software at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/utilsoft.html

Note the small download. Unzip it, and it runs within minutes - no
installer and long install process needed! The 'java -jar...' command you
executed belongs to this kind of release, not to what you have running now.

Sander

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